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From: gnelson (Greg Nelson)
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Subject: Re: Pointer ?
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Date: 7 Jan 91 20:35:00 GMT
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Brian Guenter and Jeff Templon point to the terseness of the Modula-3
specification and ask if there is any documentation that is more
"user-oriented".

I afraid there's not much yet; but more is on the way.

Sam Harbison's article in the November 1990 issue of BYTE contains
a very readable overview together with a few example programs.  I
believe that reprints of the article are available from Pine Creek
Software (840 Canerbury Lane, Pittsburgh PA 15232).  

I know of three books on Modula-3 in progress, one by Sam Harbison.
The one I'm editing will be in the bookstores in about three months;
it includes the language specification in its current terse style,
but also includes several chapters written in a more expansive style.

Research report SRC-53, by Mark Brown and me is available from DEC
Systems Research Center, 130 Lytton Ave.  Palo Alto, CA. It contains
an extended example program implementing I/O streams, but it is in
a terse style similar to the report.